islam practises summary

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  • Five Pillars of Islam
    - shahadah
    - salah
    - zakah
    - sawm
    - hajj
  • ten obligatory acts

    - salah
    - sawm
    - zakah
    - khums (20% tax on income)
    - hajj
    - jihad
    - amir bil maruf (encourage to do good)
    - nahi anil munkar (discourage wrong)
    - tawallah (loving towards friends of god)
    - tabarra (not associate with enemies of god)
  • "you who believe when you are about to pray, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, wash your feet up to the ankles and, if required, wash your whole body"
  • five daily prayers

    Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha
  • how many times a day do shia muslims pray?
    3 times a day
  • how many times a day do sunni muslims pray
    5 times a day
  • muslims prepare for prayer through
    wudu
  • wudu provides

    physical and spiritual cleanliness
  • why is it important that muslims pray facing makkah

    - to focus all of spiritual and physical self towards one place of God.
    - unites community
  • "so woe to those who pray but are heedless of their prayer"
  • "your lord says, call on me and I will answer"
  • "believers! when the call to prayer is made on the day of congregation, hurry towards the reminder of god and leave your trading"
  • rak'ah

    A sequence of movements in ritual prayer
  • recitation

    repeating a passage of text from memory
  • prostration

    kneeling with the forehead, nose, hands, knees and toes touching the floor, in submission to God
  • jummah prayer

    - a weekly communal prayer performed after midday on Friday, which includes a sermon
    - considered special
  • Du'a

    personal prayer
  • significance of salah

    - one of five pillars
    - what God has commanded, creates greater awareness of Allah
    - unites muslims
    - reminds of quran's importance as reciting from it many times daily
  • muslims can pray at home as long as perform wudu and room is clean and suitible
  • what do muslims do while standing in prayer

    recite first chapter of quran
  • It was in the month of Ramadan that the Qur'an was revealed as guidance for mankind ... So any one of you who is present that month should fast"
  • when is ramadan

    9th month of the Islamic calendar.
  • what happened during ramadan

    (night of power) The Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad
  • many muslims pay what during ramadam?
    zakah during ramadan
  • Observing the night of power gives muslims the
    Benefits of worshipping for 1000 months
  • "What will explain to you what the Night of Glory is? The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months."
  • muslims give zakah to acknowledge

    everything that they own belongs to Allah
  • zakah means to

    purify or cleanse
  • giving zakah helps to
    purify the soul
  • significance of zakah

    - Duty imposed by God
    - Sign of a true Muslim
    - Good attitude towards money
    - Strengthens communities
    - helps put concern for other muslims from prayer into action
    - link to tawallah? (loving others?)
  • "god is well aware of whatever good you do"
  • "alms are meant only for the poor, the needy"
  • khums

    A 20% paid by Shi'a Muslims on their excess income
  • sadaqah

    Voluntary payment of charity or good acts of charity
  • "Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to God by people who are able to undertake it"
  • origins of hajj

    🔹 The story of Hagar (or hajira) and Ishmael, where they were stranded in the desert.
    🔹 Hagar ran between the hills of Safa and Marwa 7 times looking for, then the angel created a fresh spring for Ishmael (Spring of Zamzam)
    🔹 Ibrahim is told to build monument, Kabba.
    🔹 Prophet (pbuh) later destroyed idols there.
  • what is the well called

    well of zamzam
  • ibrahim built a shrine called

    ka'aba
  • "Safa and Marwa are among the rites of God, so for those who make major or minor pilgrimage to the House it is no offence to circulate between the two."
  • how is hajj performed

    - enter state of ihram
    - circle ka'aba seven times
    - walk between safa and mawra hills, then collect water from well of zamzam.
    - stand at arafat (place of muhammeds last sermon) and pray for whole afternoon
    - stay night at muzdalifah and collect pebbles
    - throw pebbles at three stone walls called jamrat that represent evil (to show they reject evil and temptation)
    - id ul adha, sacrifice animal (festival of sacrifice remembers ibrahim willing to sacrifice ishmael for Allah)